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...that won't matter. They need a big road win; young Kordell and The Bus will smell the chance to define their season. The Eagles, for reasons known only to Ricky Watters (and he ain't talking), will beat the Falcons in Atlanta. And Daddy likes another limb pick: the PANTHERS, at home in the Mobile-Phone-Dome, will eke out at least a cover against Green Bay, who has too many ailing troops not to sag a little this week. Oh. And KC is simply N-V-T-S NUTS to pick the Bills...
...frenzy. Suddenly a dog was dragged among them. Its bark turned into an anguished squeal as they slit its throat and disemboweled the beast. Amid the gory scene, the excited volunteers screamed, "Our God, our nation, our leader!" After they finished off the dog, they pulled live rabbits apart, limb from limb. The recruits ripped the raw rabbit flesh with their teeth, smearing their faces with blood and fur. It was a bizarre indoctrination ceremony, apparently designed to underline Iraq's message to the world: Saddam Hussein was preparing his people for a fight...
...Republican leadership, Harned wrote in a memo, asked the coalition to "write the definitive piece of paper trashing all these bills" and launch a grass-roots effort against them. But she warned that Republicans wanted a commitment (spell that money) from the coalition before they go out on a limb. "Get off your butts, get off your wallets," Harned quoted Senate majority leader Trent Lott as saying...
...shredded within a few days. It was only after Chandra and Sethi began to construct the rubber foot around a hinged wooden ankle--wrapping it in a lighter rubber (similar to a bicycle inner tube but flesh colored) and then vulcanizing this composite--that their invention succeeded. The resulting limb takes only 45 minutes to build and fit onto the patient and is sturdy enough to last for more than five years. Sethi says of his partner, "We had a lot of opposition from formally trained doctors. In a way, someone who's not so educated is much more free...
...Sethi felt confident enough about the invention to present it to British orthopedic surgeons at Oxford, who were impressed by the artificial limb's suppleness and durability. From 1968 to 1975 only 59 patients were outfitted with the Jaipur foot, but the use of the new limb spread outside India during the Afghan war, which began in the late 1970s. Russian land mines--some diabolically shaped like butterflies to attract curious children--caused thousands of injuries, and the International Committee of the Red Cross discovered that the Jaipur foot was the hardiest limb for the mountainous Afghan terrain...